Computing And Computational Sciences Directorate

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November 2012

2012 ORNL Honors and Awards Honorees
UT-Battelle, LLC is pleased to announce the annual Awards Night honors for outstanding employees.
R&D Leadership, Director Level
Brian Worley
For exemplary program leadership of a successful and growing collaboration with the Department of Defense and for successfully initiating and providing oversight of a new data program with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

ORHS Students Shine in Regional Siemens Competition
November 25, 2012
A team of Oak Ridge High School students will have a shot at the $100,000 grand prize in the Siemens National Math and Science Competition, thanks in part to Lab mentorship...

ORNL Support for Emergency Planning and Recovery during Hurricane Sandy
Some 96 hours before landfall of Hurricane Sandy, ORNL staff published results from analytic models for predicting areas where power will be out, how many people may be impacted, as well as forecasts of number of days it may take for power to be restored...

CSED researchers assist DOE, FEMA, NGA, HHS, NORTHCOM in tracking and predicting location and duration of power outages during Sandy

As part of the Energy Awareness and Resiliency Streaming Service (EARSS) and VERDE program , the ORNL team worked to provide real time status of the power outages at a county level from about 35 different utility websites and automated the processing of National Hurricane Center (NHC) Storm Data to predict location and duration of power outages during Tropical Storms...

October 2012

Tourassi and Xu win NIH 'provocative question' grant
Georgia Tourassi and Songhua Xu in the Computational Science & Engineering Division and members of the Biomedical Science and Engineering Center at ORNL have been awarded a four-year grant to help answer one of the National Institute of Health's 24 most provocative questions in cancer research. Their research will focus on what environmental factors change the risk of various cancers when people move from one geographic region to another...